Crime

Arias foreman: Sentencing decision unfair to jury

By Brian Skoloff
Published May 24, 2013 4:00am ET
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Arias foreman: Sentencing decision unfair to jury
Virginia Aguiar, right, comforts Tiffany Sarmient as she cries in frustration after it was announced the jury deadlocked on the penalty phase of the Jodi Arias murder trial out in front of Maricopa County Superior Court Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Phoenix. Jurors who spent five months determining Jodi Arias' fate couldn't decide whether she should get life in prison or die for murdering her boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in his suburban Phoenix home, so a scheduled July 18 retrial was announced by the judge. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) | Ross D. Franklin

PHOENIX (AP) — The jury foreman in Jodi Arias’ trial says the panel just couldn’t decide whether the killing of her boyfriend was enough to merit a death a sentence.

William Zervakos tells The Associated Press jurors struggled with what they called a flawed system, explaining Arias wasn’t “Jeffrey Dahmer or Charles Manson.” They thought it was unfair that 12 average Americans who aren’t lawyers had to make such a crucial decision.

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